WNY Bowhunter

It's getting me in the mood for bow season too...but I wish my trail cameras would stop fogging up over-night!!!

I like him better than the first one...not very wide, but he has some great mass!!!

He's a great deer, but unless he's got some hidden tines...he won't touch the 160 mark.

Not the giant buck I'm looking for, but this is only the second bear that I've ever gotten on one of my cams. Thankfully, he didn't try to rip it off of the tree!!!

I've been trying all summer to get pics of another buck (the double drop-tine from last year). Well, he finally showed up saturday morning but I got srewed over by the condensation on the camera lens...

Got a few more pics of him on the weekend card check. The overnight condensation is killing me!!!

Man, I'm thinking he needs another year...besides, I want to put my tag on "Big Boy's" rack!!! Just got in from doing some scouting. I spooked a hen turkey and poults as I made my way to the back cloverfield. She started calling to her kids and a gobbler hammered three times a couple hundred yards away!!! I ended up hanging a camera...hopefully Big Boy will wander by.

Last year he was a beautiful, symmetrical 8-pt, I don't know what went wrong this year? He must have suffered an injury to that side early in the growing cycle. I would really love to see this guy get another year on him...for being only a 3 year old he is a bruiser!!! Same deer in 2011:

He's at least a 3 year old. I don't have much faith in being able to accurately age an unknown deer just by looking at a photo of them as photos can be very deceptive/mis-leading...

That's a beauty. Good luck with him!!!

He's got a buddy that I call "Little Freak-Nasty" but he's one of the bucks that I haven't gotten pics of yet...

I try to crop the pics so that they are roughly the same scale...

This guy is a resident of my best friend's dairy farm. There is no "deer food" here other than the alfalfa, clover and corn that's grown for the cows. Ain't no soybeans for miles. In these pics they're feeding on the new clover that's coming up in a hayfield...

Well, I'm still in a funk for getting pics of a few bruiser bucks that I've been seeing. For some reason, I just can't get them to step in front of my cameras... Anyways, I ended up checking one of my cams this morning that is set up in an open field to see if the wind screwed with it over the weekend. I was pleasantly surprised to see that this guy (I've decide to call him "Jack'd Up") stopped by this morning to give me a good look at his headgear. Looks like he's got a little tine/beam length left to add on to the front...but is pretty much fully grown at this point. Now if only some of his buddies would cooperate with me!!!

Here one that shows his slender, "leggy" body frame... Same as with this young buck...

I've got lots of pics of him over the summer but they've all been deleted. Yearlings of this size are not too uncommon out here...

Yep, they are both yearlings...

I wouldn't mind seeing these two little guys make it through a couple of hunting seasons...

Awesome man!!! No shims needed to get it tuned?

My current bow is a K&K Vengeance...it's been a great bow, but I just couldn't resist buying a Lethal Force when my local shop told me he could get them. I hope to have it in my hands soon!!!

It's not that early...November 10. Just look at the the neck on him...his body is angled away making it appear smaller. For compasrison, here are two yearling bucks at the same apple tree...

Besides these pics I had no history with this deer other than finding his broken mainbeam earlier that morning. It had a really long browtine with a big fork above it. The antler was really flat as you can see by the little stub that's still there. Look at the head on that guy, he isn't a yearling!!! I'm guessing he was probably 3.5 years old. He may have acquired some sort of injury but he still wasn't a frontrunner in the genetics department.

So, how's she shoot???!!!

That one is way too big to drag out of the woods!!! Here's a good little article on the topic... http://www.qdma.com/articles/why-we-cant-manage-deer-genetics

I think that we all can agree on this one: This is a case of BAD genetics!!!